Re:The Wrath of Goodreads
by hammock on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:19PM
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Potential solve: Amazon owns Goodreads. Amazon has a way of tagging reviews with “certified purchaser.” Of course this means you must buy the book from Amazon
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Re:The Wrath of Goodreads
by OfSanguineFire on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:35PM
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Goodreads is much more international than Amazon, foreign users won’t realistically order from Amazon.com and might not have a local Amazon.xy site. For a time, one of the most active demographics on Goodreads was young female Iranians.
Re:The Wrath of Goodreads
by CSMastermind on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:37PM
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As noted in the article they already do this.
Re:The Wrath of Goodreads
by jasonlotito on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:03PM
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The irony to make this suggestion on this article about people commenting on things they didn't read.
Re:The Wrath of Goodreads
by RheingoldRiver on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:27PM
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Not only might you not have purchased from Amazon and instead bought it some other way, but
* Most early reviews are via ARCs (Advance Reading Copies) which you get through netgalley and similar sites, or directly from the author/publisher
* It is quite likely that you're reading something (legally) without having bought it because libraries exist
* Just because you bought it, doesn't mean you read it, and you might be tempted to leave a one-star review based on the fact that it shipped slowly and arrived late